Hyena Training
Here’s some footage of some really cool training with hyenas at the Denver Zoo. The reinforcer is ground beef and it’s given to the animals through a little chute. What you’re seeing is mostly husbandry behaviors — behaviors that make it easy for the trainers and veterinarians to take a look at and take care of the animal easily and with as little stress on the animal as possible. You’ll see the hyena’s open their mouths on cue, offer a leg for blood draws, and all kinds of cool stuff. Kinda makes you wonder why people have a hard time trimming their dog’s nails after seeing this, huh?!
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Stop “training” them. Just feed them and let them have fun out in some open fields, not be in cages doing stupid ass tricks.
It’s great how they trained these hyenas so well. Most dogs probably wouldn’t even know their trained behavior, aside from the sits and downs.
this IS pretty cool!
@sp33dycat No they wouldn’t. Nothing can replace the “common dog”. What the fuck is a common dog anyway? A stray dog? Thre are tons of breeds with different temperaments and uses.
Game set and match.
@fralust
Wait, you haven’t given up?
You did read the last line of my most recent comment, right?
@ominouszorbathegreek
You claim not to be defending anyone.
Shit! You could have fooled me!!!!
You’re either a clone of sob3 or madly in love…….
Which is it?
@ominousgeek
So now you’re engaging in pedanticism, endless blabber, and placing your frock coat over a puddle for sob3 with a rose in your flapping mouth.
What an earth is your agenda, dear boy/girl?
So fraught and passionate. Like a 5th rate Goethe ingenue.
Calm down.
PS. Apologies for my quotation marks not “”matching up’.’ I shall thrash myself unmercifully and try my darndest to straighten this matter out.
PPS. You forgot a comma between “look it up” and “your.”
@fralust
I’m not defending anyone: I’m attacking because nobody else is currently doing so, and as amusing as it would be to sit back, relax, and watch you complain about nasal voices for all eternity, you are a pompous idiot and would be better off spending your free time hurling yourself off of playground equipment.
However, given the fact that this time you’re putting some real effort into misspelling user names, it seems that this has become a case of trolls trolling trolls.
@omnipresentgeek
And at what point do you plan to triumph and “school me”, my garrulous friend……?
You’re a regular chatty Kathy, aren’t you? And you must admit that your oh so noble and valiant defence of sob3 is, given the paucity of traffic on this video, irregular to say the least.
I still smelll a rat, but am more than happy to have a chit chat with you, but cannot promise to match your hurt pride and loquaciousness.
@Omnigeek6
“Guess what? I looked it up, and it turns out you’re wrong.”
As a footnote, here are the spelling and grammer errors in your previous post. In “look it up’ your quotation marks don’t match up. “This is what D0b3 said, and who might you be?” is a run-on sentence, and you should have used “That.” You also overuse exclamation points and until now have consistently spelled “D0b3″ as “sob3.”
Don’t bother replying. You’re way out of your league.
@Omnigeek6
I replied to myself so that the comments are visible as one longer comment and it is clear to literate people that each is a continuation of the previous one. You should try this as well.
Oh, and I think I get the point just fine. Citing sources is almost impossible in YT comments, so the next best thing is saying: “Do some research before you spew your uneducated opinions all over the comments section.” If you told me the moon was made of cheese, and to look it up, I would reply:
@fralust
Just as I thought, you’re responding with accusations. In this case, accusations of being an alt account. Of course, like nearly all your other accusations, it’s false.
I’ve actually been watching your little flame war for quite some time. I was hoping to see you thoroughly schooled by Dob3, but since that did not happen I decided to jump in. I posted three comments because 500 characters just weren’t enough to express how ridiculous and sad you are.
@Omnigeek6 You miss the point utterly. If I were to tell you that the moon is made of cheese, and then simply told you to “look it up’, that would really be rather silly, wouldn’t it? This is what D0b3 said, and who might you be? Her knight in dull armor or a cloned account of hers?
This video gets very little activity and for you to show up out of the blue and post so many comments (several to yourself!) is mighty suspicious……..
Thank goodness there’s a charcter limit on YT!!!
@Omnigeek6
Now, a little suggestion. If you actually want to convince us of something, then find out what you’re talking about before you even THINK of clicking “reply” and stop insulting people. Then you might come across as a civil, intelligent person. Right now you are coming across as a willfully moronic asshole.
Tip: the opinions of civil, intelligent people are taken seriously. The opinions of willfully moronic assholes are not.
@Omnigeek6
Oh, and here’s something else to look up: “ad-hominem fallacy”. Once again, it is YOUR job to look it up because YOU are the one whose posts consist of little else. I would be really nice and post a link for you anyway, but YouTube doesn’t allow links in comments.
Other minor notes: If anything you said was uttered in a debate club, you’d be kicked out in about five seconds. Again, read your own posts. You do nothing but insult everyone and everything around you.
@fralust
Actually, it is your role to look things up. As you said, if YOU make a claim/statement, then YOU have to furnish credible evidence to back it up. YOU have done nothing of the sort; you never provide any evidence for your claims, nor do said claims consist of anything more substantial than playground insults, most of which have no basis in fact. There’s a character limit, so I won’t list examples. Just read your own comments.
@fralust You’re a moron, they are training the animals so that they can take care of them more efficiently, so instead of having to trang the animal when they need to take some blood for tests or checking their teeth, they can just get them to do the required behaviour, and the animals get rewarded as well as not having to be tranqed which is far more stressful than lifting their paw or opening their mouth.
@sob3
You say: “Again, please look up suggested info to see how training *adds* independence to captive animals.”
No, it is not my job or role to look up anything. This is a backpedaling, trite ploy favored by ill informed waffling sophists. If YOU make a claim/statement. then YOU have to furnish credible evidence to back it up.
Imagine if this was uttered in a political debate. The party asking this would be laughed at.
This is why you choose to impose your will on animals……
@sob3
Upon retiring from subjugating animals to your own personal whim and needs, do you plan to go into politics?
If so, you really should smarten your act up, as you will be grilled a lot harder than on YT. For the 3rd time, are you suggesting a well fed animal bereft of any independence and autonomy is content, and its need to be free and self-sufficient is irrelevant?
Siegfired and Roy meet Sarah Palin…?
You really do talk a lot of shit when cornered.
Good luck in politics.
@fralust “And you did not answer my question.” Actually, I answered using capital letters. Again, please look up suggested info to see how training *adds* independence to captive animals.
It seems now your issue is more w/ captivity of exotics – a separate question, and legitimate in many cases. (This particular group, IIRC, has contributed hugely to understanding of hyena reproduction, aiding conservation efforts.) But for husbandry of those already in captivity, training is proven healthier.
@sob3 And what point did I compare “ALL education as exploitative beauty pageants?” I did not and shame on you for intimating otherwise. And when did I say “please” and “thank you” are dirty words? This is why you are a waffler.
And you did not answer my question. Again, are you suggesting a well fed animal bereft of any independence and autonomy is content, and its need to be free and self-sufficient is irrelevant?
You’re a 5th rate Siegfried and Roy. Which one are you?
@fralust Logged in and first line I saw was your comment to sp33dycat on anal hygiene. Then your comment to me re fellatio. Clear, scientific discussion, I see, with excellent research.
And no, I said independence and mental activity is CRITICAL. Just as raising a child to have good manners and good safety habits but to be independent – but if you see all education as exploitative beauty pageants, with “please” and “thank you” as dirty words, then we’re stuck at crude interaction.
@sob3 I never suggested that “soothes” was your word or otherwise, but it would suit your self helpy, fuzzy agenda. How do you know the hyenas cannot hear the whining narrator?
And you miss the point, dear. You are apparently one of these types obsessed with training animals whether they like it or not, and it probably consumes your existence the way a bloated mother parades her 6-year daughter at child beauty pageants. You no doubt tell all and sundry of your “passion.”
Waffler.
@sob3 Must have been a typing error. Apologies.
Tell me, dear, do you make your companion sit up and beg for oral pleasure. Yes, that includes both parties. Treats for tricks!
Let me get this straight. You’re suggesting a well fed animal bereft of any independence is content and its need to be free and self-sufficient is irrelevant?
You have an apparent need to impose your will on animals due to perhaps a kink in your personal make up.
And no, I’m not talking about your rouge.